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Challenging Assumptions in Education
From Institutionalized Education to a Learning Society
by Wendy Priesnitz |
A fresh and exciting personal approach to the inevitable and urgently
needed revolution in education, which demolishes the one-size-fits-all,
industrialized model of processing and warehousing students and creates
a community-based, individualized learning society accommodating
learners of all ages, interests, abilities and styles. This
book discusses why progressively-minded parents might not want to send
their children to school...and describes the democratic, life-affirming,
academically and socially beneficial alternative.
"Our outdated assumptions about how children
learn are crippling both our young people and our collective well-being.
Only by challenging these assumptions will we be able to replace a system
that is not relevant to the lives of today's young people. We must give
up on the hierarchical, coercive, industrial model of education whether
it looks like a public school, a charter school, a private school or a
home school because it impedes learning and enslaves children. Then we
need to create opportunities and infrastructures that respect children,
help them learn, and equip them to meet the immense economic, social and
environmental challenges of this century."
Wendy Priesnitz
About the Author:
Wendy Priesnitz is a homeschooling/unschooling pioneer. She and her husband helped
their two daughters learn at home when it was almost unheard of,
beginning in the 1970s. In 1979, she founded one of the earliest homeschooling support organizations
in North America and continues to share her experience and long-term,
progressive perspective with families around the world. She has authored twelve other
books, including School Free, a bestselling homeschooling start-up
guide, and has edited and contributed to many others. She is an award winning journalist and edits four
magazines, including
Life Learning and
Natural Life Magazines.
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